72 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the hinder edge ; anal segment changed in shape to a 

 thickened button, decidedly broader than the preceding 

 segment ; upon it the cremaster has two converging spines 

 and some fine bristles ; colour chestnut-brown, the anal seg- 

 ment and cremaster much darker. In a slight habitation 

 formed of a few threads uniting any loose vegetable refuse ; 

 on the ground. 



The moth sits during the day on the face of a rock, or on 

 the upper side of a leaf of some herbaceous plant. If dis- 

 turbed it flutters weakly away for a few yards, only to settle 

 in a similar spot. Its only known locality in these islands is 

 the bold promoutor\" of the Islo of Portland, where it is said 

 to have been first taken by Mr. Curtis, author of " British 

 Entomology," in the year 1831, and where it is still to be 

 found, not very rarely. Abroad also it is very local in its 

 range, but is distributed through Central and Southern 

 France, Central and Eastern Germany, Hungary, some parts 

 of Southern Europe, Asia .Minor, Armenia, and Cyprus. 



Cieuus 1. TIMANDRA. 



Antenna3 notched, thickly ciliated or bristly : palpi 

 minute ; head, thorax, and abdomen smooth, the two latter 

 moderately slender ; fore wings somewhat triangular and 

 rather pointed ; hind wings augulated upon the hind margin. 



L.VKV.E very slender, scarcely tapering ; upon low-growing 

 plants. 



We have three species, very easily recognised. 



A. Wings greyish-white with several oblique transverse 

 darker lines. T. strvjilata. 



A-. Wings pinkish-white ; a curved oblique grey central 

 stripe runs to the ajicx of the fore wings. T. cmutaria. 



A-'. Wings pinkish-drab or red-drab, with a purple-red or 

 red-black central stripe throughout, but in the fore 

 wings running into the costa. T. imitaria. 



